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Latest Club podcast explores newsletters with creators of two of them
In the latest episode of the National Press Club podcast, Update-1, Club members Michael Yessis and Molly McCluskey discuss everything newsletters -– the ones they read, what they’ve learned by starting their own and advice for future newsletter creators. Yessis is the founder and editor of "This Week in Podcast," (@WeekinPodcasts), a newsletter that offers a weekly roundup of the best and latest podcast episodes listeners might have missed. McCluskey is the creator of "Diplomatica" (@DiplomaticaDC), a multimedia exploration into the hidden histories of diplomatic properties in Washington…
Type: News
National Press Club in History: The Cold War ends in the Ballroom
In July 1989, three years after Soviet Union Premier Mikhail Gorbachev took office, his military advisor, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, told an astounded National Press Club Luncheon audience that Soviet satellites Poland and Hungary were free to go their own ways. Akhromeyev was in the United States on a goodwill tour with Adm. William Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Gorbachev’s Glasnost Policy to reform the Soviet Union was beginning to take hold. Club President Peter Holmes of the Washington Times asked him if Gorbachev had abandoned the previous policy that allowed military…
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Headliners Book Event for media diversity pioneer Dorothy Butler Gilliam, Thursday
Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam will share her aptly titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in the conference rooms. The event, originally scheduled for Jan. 14, will feature a presentation by Gilliam, an audience question-and-answer session and a book signing. Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the general public. When purchasing tickets online, attendees will also have the option of purchasing…
Type: News
As 12th anniversary of Virginia Tech massacre approaches, author discusses what happened to victims, gun policies at Headliners Book Event, April 4
As the 12th anniversary of the Virginia Tech mass shooting approaches, a shooting survivor and a journalist who chronicled its aftermath will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Thursday, April 4. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. in the conference rooms. Thomas Kapsidelis will discuss his newly published book, "After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings," which chronicles the aftermath of the April 16, 2007, rampage by a lone gunman that killed 32 Virginia Tech students and professors. It was the deadliest mass shooting on a college campus. He…
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CVS Health CEO to address Aetna acquisition, health-care challenges at Headliners Luncheon, Jan. 14
Following CVS Health’s recent $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, which created one of the largest health-care combinations in U.S. history, CVS Health President and CEO Larry Merlo will discuss how his company plans to address the current challenges in today’s health care system at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon Monday, Jan. 14. Overcoming these challenges, Merlo argues, requires transforming the system from within -- centering it on the needs of individuals to help them achieve their best health at a lower cost. Merlo will lay out how CVS Health plans to play a significant role…
Type: News
What? You've never heard New Orleans Swamp Funk? Now's your chance at Kodjak inaugural, Jan. 12
The Beat Hotel will cap off the festivities at the after party following National Press Club President-elect Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak's inauguration gala on Saturday, Jan. 12. The band is known for its New Orleans Swamp Funk music, the Crescent City’s unique musical hybrid of R&B, funk, soul and blues. The after party will follow a night of roasts and toasts to welcome Kodjak as the 112th president. Kodjak will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Purchase tickets here. The inaugural gala begins with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $…
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Screening, discussion of documentary film, "Putin's Witnesses,' Jan. 16
The National Press Club will screen "Putin’s Witnesses" a documentary film that Variety called “riveting” and “incensed," Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 6 p.m. in the Murrow White Lisagor Conference Rooms. The event is free for Club members and $5 for non-members. Tickets are available online. Years after spending considerable time filming Putin at close quarters in his capacity as head of documentaries for Russian national television, Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky's "Putin’s Witness" documents the events that followed the unexpected resignation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin in December 1999…
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Celebrity Chef Carla Hall to present newest cookbook at Jan. 17 dinner at the Fourth Estate restaurant
Join celebrity chef Carla Hall of ABC's Emmy Award-winning "The Chew" at a wine dinner Jan. 17 showcasing her just published cookbook, "Carla Hall's Soul Food." The award-winning chef, television personality and food activist explores her Nashville roots and delivers an original take on Southern comfort food, tracing soul food’s history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South. The Jan. 17 event marks Hall's second appearance at the National Press Club. The previous dinner sold out, so reserve early to avoid disappointment. Click here to reserve your ticket. The five-course wine…
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Wensing wins Club's top volunteer award
A National Press Club member who was instrumental in organizing some of this year's highest-profile events earned its top volunteer award. Kevin Wensing, a member of the Headliners Team, won the Berny Krug Award for his leadership in securing several Club luncheon speakers, including Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Small Business Administration head Linda McMahon, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz, among others. “Kevin is really elevating the level of speakers we have here at the Club,” Club…
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National Press Club in History: The day the space shuttle crashed into a presidential inaugural
For a new National Press Club president, no day is more stressful or more exciting than his or her presidential inaugural. Some Club presidents spend months, if not years, thinking about this party. It may be a lifetime high. Relatives, friends, fellow employees and high-powered executives converge on the ballroom. The emcee, roasters and entertainers have been lined up. The menu chosen with care. And amid all of this, the new president has to give a speech. From dawn to the wee hours of the next day, the new president has to be ready to go. So, what could possibly go wrong? Tammy Lytle, the…
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